GED2HTML: What's New in the Current Release
Version 2.4:
- GED2HTML is now being released as shareware.
Please see here
for more information.
- New documentation has been written in HTML.
You're reading it.
- The DOS version of the program has been discontinued.
Only the Windows version is in the current release.
The DOS version was pretty useless for GEDCOM's of any
interesting size, anyway.
- A true Windows user interface is now provided to make it
easier and less confusing for most Windows users to run
the program.
- Source records are now supported. Previous versions of the
program would only include source information at level 1
within INDI records. Furthermore, full source structures
were not supported. The Version 2.4 handles cross-referenced
source records at level 0, as well as source structures
within INDI, FAM, NOTE, and event structures at higher levels.
The existence of source information is signalled in the output
file by ``footnote markers'' that appear near the information
to which they pertain. The footnote markers link to source
information in separate HTML files.
The chaining of source structures, as described in the
GEDCOM 5.3 draft standard,
is also supported, but it is not thoroughly
tested since I do not have sample GEDCOMs that use this feature.
At present, only source structures chained to other source
records are handled. Chaining of source structures to event
records, though allowed by the GEDCOM 5.3 draft standard,
will result in an error message.
- Performance improvements have been made in the production
of the output files, especially under Windows.
- OCCU, EDUC, and a variety of other tags giving information
about an individual are now processed properly, and the information
appears in the output files.
- Pedigree charts have been changed slightly to be
a little more compact at depths of 4 or greater.
- PERSONS.html is now the name of the top-level index file,
rather than INDEX.html. The latter was an unfortunate
choice that conflicted with defaults built into many Web servers.
- Titles of individual pages now include birth and death dates.
- New template constructs have been added to cause the date
of the run and the version number of GED2HTML to be inserted into
the output.
- The Windows version of the program now creates its output
files in a subdirectory HTML, rather than in the directory from
which it was run.
- The hierarchical index algorithm was modified to try to
reduce the frequency of index nodes with hardly any entries in
them. The current scheme adjusts the width of the index nodes
less than the specified maximum width, so that all the nodes at
the same level of the index have close to the same number of entries.
Under certain conditions the top-level index node can still end
up with as few as two entries, but this can be worked around
by adjusting the specified maximum width until better results are
obtained.
- A few minor bugs were fixed that existed in the previous
version of the program.
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Copyright © 1995 Eugene W. Stark. All rights reserved.
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